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Information technology and information systems in business

4.3 Databases

To store large amounts of raw data, it is best to use a database. This is especially
true in circumstances where two or more users share the information.

Advantages Disadvantages

 The most important benefit  Requires the user to learn a
gained by using a database is new system
the ease of reporting and
sharing data  Requires a greater investment
in training and software
 Databases require little or no
duplication of data between  The initial time and cost of
information tables migrating all of the data into a
 Changes made to the data do new database is significant
not corrupt the programming
(e.g. at the cell level of a
spreadsheet where calculations
are running)

 Databases offer better security
to restrict users from accessing
privileged information, and from
changing coded information in
the programming.

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